The whole purpose of the blogging craze was that we would have an outlet to voice our opinions and force the world to read them. However I have discovered in order to make this happen you must blog on a regular basis and get people to follow you. I go through spurts where God is dealing with me profoundly, so as a result I think everyone else needs to read about it. Or at times, I am just trying to write out of the truth in my heart, the trials of life, the burning in me to see the captive set free and just living life. I don't write every day mainly because I am sometimes way too busy, or because I tutor and edit college papers I grow weary in writing for myself. However, in a few weeks, I will embark on two journeys that I am sure will mark me for the next 12 months and give me some interesting things to blog about.
First I will travel to Trinidad with a small group. I feel like this trip is more of a fact finding trip, and so I'm really wondering what the Lord is going to show me during the course of the 10 days we are going . So the first part of my post is "WHY MISSIONS?". Well the easy answer is because God commands us to go into the world. A dear soul in my life said to me recently that he could not understand our need to go to countries and try to make people believe the way we believe or to be something they are not. I never looked at missions like that. My response to that person was that "love compels us to do great things". I do missions because I love people. I do missions because I am compelled to go. I do missions because the though of someone not given the opportunity to hear how Jesus changed my life and can change theirs too is too heartbreaking to me. I do missions because I don't want to change a culture or make people westernized. I want people to know that what great love God has for them. I can't change anyone, but I can bring help, hope and LOVE. So that is why I am going to Trinidad.
The Seventh Year - a 52 week journey. I am great reading fan of Alicia Britt Chole. I read her book Anonymous and it totally wrecked my thinking. I have been in a season of feeling "Anonymous". I feel like I have so much to say but no-one will give me the opportunity to say it. Or I think about being vulnerable and sharing my story and then rather than face judgment, I retreat out of fear. So it does not surprise me that I am feeling led to not only commit myself to this journey offered by Alicia, but that I'm actually going to take this journey with my own daughter. I suspect it to be be a freeing period in our individual lives as well as the relationship that has been way to long in rebuilding.
So follow my blog. I will be blogging from Trinidad, since this trip seems to be allowing me plenty of time to update. I'll post my blogs and pictures on Facebook. Then follow us, as we take a 52-week journey through focused on prayer, journaling, waiting and watching God mold us into something better.
Love compels....
Cindy
